TCL Inkjet 4K: First RGB OLED panel with UHD & 120 Hz on 27 inches 13 comments
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TCL presented its first RGB OLED monitor for gamers at CES 2025. With the Inkjet 4K, TCL wants to offer UHD resolution and a refresh rate of 120 Hz on 27 inches. The brightness is lower than that of Samsung and LG, but the new panel technology already has other advantages.
RGB-OLED is coming slowly
RGB-OLED has a good chance of establishing itself as the third OLED technology alongside Samsung’s QD-OLED and LG Display’s WOLED. However, the technology still needs to prove itself so far; Japanese pioneer JOLED has already failed because of technology. TCL of China is now launching a new attempt and started mass production of a monitor in the last quarter of last year. However, only a 21.6-inch ultra-low-brightness medical-grade UHD OLED panel was shown at the time.
A first OLED RGB monitor for gamers
At CES, TCL presented its first gaming monitor with RGB-OLED, which also uses the inkjet printing process. This process aims to make production cheaper in the future and therefore reduce the prices of OLED panels. RGB-OLED, on the other hand, offers the advantage that the subpixels are not arranged asymmetrically as with QD-OLED and WOLED and can therefore fray fine details such as text, but rather fill the panel exactly with straight and symmetrical manner. The technology should therefore also find its place in televisions. TCL is a large display manufacturer in Asia.
The presented monitor now wants to make this advantage tangible in a 27-inch body with UHD resolution and a 120 Hz refresh rate – and thus potentially appeal to gamers who are not entirely impressed by Samsung’s QD-OLED displays at CES of this year. It should be noted, however, that TCL has so far only described the monitor with brightness values of 250 cd/m² at full screen and 600 cd/m² at peak. At full screen, RGB OLEDs can compete with LG and Samsung for the first time, but at top, QD-OLEDs shine significantly brighter with over 1,000 cd/m².
TCL Inkjet 4K (CES 2025) (Image: The Display Guy)
(Even) brighter in the future
TCL knows this too and told YouTuber The Display Guy that the panel will be even brighter in the future. Information from TCL also suggests that the color spectrum of QD-OLED could be exceeded. We are talking about DCI-P3 with more than 99 percent and BT2020 with more than 82 percent coverage.
Pricing and availability
We do not yet know at what price and in what time frame a monitor equipped with such a panel will be available in Asia or even in Europe. Some exotic models from TCL are definitely coming to Europe, as shown by the TCL 27R83U (price comparison) with UHD resolution, 160 Hz and 1,152 mini-LEDs for DisplayHDR 1,400.
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